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Wesley and the Wesleyans
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ISBN: 1107112338 0511202407 128015182X 9786610151820 0511841108 0511116128 0511039484 0511329946 0511052901 9780511039485 9780511052903 9780511116124 9780521455558 0521455553 9780521455329 0521455324 9780511841101 Year: 2002 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Wesley and the Wesleyans challenges the cherished myth that at the moment when the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution were threatening the soul of eighteenth-century England, an evangelical revival - led by the Wesleys - saved it. It will interest anyone concerned with the history of Methodism and the Church of England, the Evangelical tradition, and eighteenth-century religious thought and experience. The book starts from the assumption that there was no large-scale religious revival during the eighteenth century. Instead, the role of what is called 'primary religion' - the normal human search for ways of drawing supernatural power into the private life of the individual - is analysed in terms of the emergence of the Wesleyan societies from the Church of England. The Wesleys' achievements are reassessed; there is fresh, unsentimental description of the role of women in the movement, and an unexpectedly sympathetic picture emerges of Hanoverian Anglicanism.

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